Salience 6.5.0 Release 2019-10-14 (r1741)

This is the Salience 6.5 release, introducing support for a greater variety of Assembler machine learning models, the ability to verify that models behave correctly and more including faster runtime speeds.

Features

• You can now specify a path for Salience to log information to when constructing a session.
• Salience was leaving two environment variables behind when you ran the uninstaller on Windows.
• Added option to specify a URL where the Basic Language Server is running if you want to split that across machines. This requires you to manage the server (launch it, restart it if it dies).
• "Next of" rules in an entity relationship can now filter by entity labels as well as types.
• Added DisableChunkParser option. This degrades accuracy for a number of features (sentiment, entities, ...) but speeds processing.
• Themes/normalizations.dat no longer requires that you enter stemmed forms of themes. Fixed stemming of single word themes (don't exist by default but can be enabled via rules.ptn).
• Relationships now return the specific mentions of the entity they matched, instead of all mentions of those entities.
• More features supported inside custom models.
• Added clearer labels for hierarchical model-based entity labels (e.g. Organization/Company/Bank).
• Queries against a token can reference only mentions with a specific POS tag using the "_" character, for example: cook_VB will only match "cook" being used as a verb.
• Performance enhancements to running custom models.

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug where gluepatterns was appending a space on the start of the glued token.
• Fixed bug when using the *{min,max} pattern syntax in a relationship file (since that also uses curly braces).
• Fixed character offset errors near Chinese punctuation, and when using gluepatterns.dat to combine tokens.

Migration strategy

• There are no API changes required to use Salience 6.5.
• If you have fr-data-2485, which contains an old Assembler model, you must upgrade to fr-data-2781 or later if you are using Salience 6.5
• If you have fr-data-2111, you can use this with Salience 6.5 and see the same results as before.
• Ports 15980-16108 should not be firewalled on any machine running Salience 6.5 because they are now used for MLHandler and MLWorker processes.

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